Less is More: Compact Clue Selection for Efficient Retrieval-Augmented Generation Reasoning.

@inproceedings{zhang-2026-less, author = {Qianchi Zhang and Hainan Zhang and Liang Pang and Yongxin Tong and Hongwei Zheng and Zhiming Zheng}, editor = {Hakim Hacid and Yoelle Maarek and Francesco Bonchi and Ido Guy and Emine Yilmaz}, title = {{Less is More: Compact Clue Selection for Efficient Retrieval-Augmented Generation Reasoning}}, booktitle = {{Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2026, WWW 2026, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, originally scheduled for April 13-17, 2026, rescheduled for June 29 - July 3, 2026}}, pages = {1971--1982}, publisher = {ACM}, year = {2026}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3774904.3792158}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3774904.3792158} }